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type here; the type is, however, easily recognisable and it is stated to have been found in the old layer D.
No blades for harpoon heads have appeared in the find at all nor in the collection described by Wissler; several of the harpoon heads have had inserted blades and the blade slits seem to be too narrow for stone blades to have been used; but of course this is a place where access to iron (meteoric iron) has always been easy.
Of ice picks there are only two fragments, of antler; of slender foreshafts or shafts for harpoons also a few fragments, of whalebone.
Fig. 100 (L 7763, "the excavations at Thule") is a piece of the seat of a sealing stool of wood; it is one of the front corners with one of the holes for the legs, at the top 1.7, below 2.0 cm in diameter; the thickness is greatest — 3 cm — around the hole and decreases from it towards the middle and also towards the edge; in three holes are the remnants of the baleen thong which has served to hold the various parts of the stool together.
Of arrow heads there are two, small, slender, both of antler, without barbs, with conical tang; the length is up to 12 cm. There is also the small arrow head Pl. 78.7 (L 7552), of antler, with conical shaft end, two holes and six two-rowed barbs; it is apparently the head of a bird arrow with loose point, i. e. related to the bird harpoons of the Naujan find. Five specimens are broken ends of wooden arrow shafts, broad and flat at the end, with notch.
A powerful point of narwhal tusk, 13.2 cm long, very much resembles Milimatalik Pl. 43.8.
Of gull hooks of the usual type there are 4 (see also Wissler fig. 23 b–c); one of them differs in that the oblique groove is not on the flat side but on the edge; one of the specimens has a piece of baleen cord in a hole at one end. Two other wooden sticks have similar oblique grooves near one end, but are much heavier (7.9 and 8.1 cm long and 2.0 and 1.8 cm wide respectively); on the opposite side of the groove one has a sunk bed, the other lashing notches; a barb has apparently been lashed in the groove; the other ends of the specimens are only roughly shaped.
Of snow knives there are seven fragments, six of whalebone, one of ivory; two are rather pointed, the others have rounded tips; one has been more than 5 cm wide. The only snow knife handle in the collection (L 7746. "Comer's Midden") is of whalebone, 15 cm long, with a big knob on the rear end; the blade has been set in a slit in the handle with which it has formed an angle, and has been fastened in by two rivets and a lashing through a hole in the back of the handle. Wissler figures several wide snow knives with one and two shoulders (fig. 17–18).